Good news, robots! You may soon become beer connoisseurs thanks to an amazing electronic tongue that can identify different brews with staggering accuracy.

It may look like a bunch of cigarettes rubber-banded together, but the device is part of a chemical analysis system developed by scientists at the Univeristy of Barcelona. What you’re looking at is a bundle of 21 ion-sensitive electrodes, each responsible for “tasting” different things (like cations and anions).

Don’t worry: the electronic tongue isn’t going to challenge your amazing beer-tasting prowess at this point. It’s got to be trained to identify brews, just like you do. So until scientists finish filling out the system’s beer passport, your years of experience would still win out in a one-on-one competition.

Researchers did manage to teach the tongue how to at least identify several varieties of beer by taste. It can already pick out lager, pilsner, double malt, lovely, dark shwarzbier, Alsatian, and dealcoholized beers. With further training it should be a simple enough task to recognize other varieties — like flagging Great Lake’s Brewing’s delicious Edmund Fitzgerald as a porter.

The goal here is to one day produce an AI-powered tasting device that can replace human tasters and ensure absolutely perfect replication of taste in mass-produced foods and beverages. The downside to that, of course, is that your dreams of one day becoming a highly-paid beer taster at a top-notch brewery may have been squashed forever by a team of lab-coated killjoys.